Senior Source Strategist

Start Date: 2012-05-01End Date: 2013-03-11

I worked as the ISAF Joint Command (IJC) LiDAR Collection Requirements Manager in Afghanistan. In this position, I served as the LiDAR subject matter expert and theater collection requirements manager for the ISAF Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan. I wrote, edited, reviewed and validated customer LiDAR requirements and tasked them to the appropriate platform to satisfy tactical requirements in an ever-changing combat environment. I was also responsible for coordinating maintenance and flying schedules for nine different aircraft flying three different LiDAR missions in order to ensure the customer received high value geospatial intelligence in a timely manner to support various tactical ground operations.

Troy has over 25 years of experience in the Intelligence field, specializing in imagery and advanced geospatial intelligence. His career has spanned a wide variety of experiences, including GEOINT collection requirements management in the national and tactical arenas; and, formal training and courseware development in the US Air Force service courses. He has a strong geospatial intelligence analysis background utilizing most forms of image data, to include electro-optical, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Thermal IR, full motion video and multi-spectral imagery. He is familiar with various systems to include SOCET GXP, ENVI, Geospatial Enterprise TPED System (GETS), Imagery Exploitation Support System (IESS), the Requirements Management System (RMS), and Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization and Management (PRISM) as well as the Microsoft Office Suite and various other systems. Besides technical skills, he has experience in a forward deployed location as well as leading teams in high energy environments, supporting contingency operations, as well as managing team functions and supervising personnel.Some of his career highlights include being selected as a Master Instructor for the US Air Force Imagery Analysis Course, serving as the 7th Air Force GEOINT Collection Manager, leader of a combined IMINT and SIGINT team at DGS-2 and serving as the LiDAR Collection Manager for the ISAF Joint Command while deployed to Afghanistan.

Joint Imagery Analysis Courses Courseware Developer

Start Date: 2001-04-01End Date: 2007-06-01

Served as an imagery intelligence subject matter expert responsible for researching, developing, editing, validation and updating courseware for a joint service exportable advanced imagery analysis course.Presented program briefings to visitors and worldwide customers.Midway through assignment, deployed to the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar as the high altitude airborne collection requirements manager in support of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM.

Senior Airborne AGI Analyst

Start Date: 2009-11-01End Date: 2012-05-01

Served as a senior analyst for the Airborne Multi-Spectral Imagery team at the National Air & Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright Patterson AFB, OH.Part of a 23 member team executing airborne Multi-Spectral Imagery requirements for customers in the very dynamic Afghanistan theater of operations.Duties included data retrieval, processing, analysis, exploitation, and product generation and dissemination.Responsible for assisting other analysts on the team as well as analysts and customers in other remote locations.

Instructor, Imagery Analysis Apprentice Course

Start Date: 1993-04-01End Date: 1997-06-01

Conducted training; prepared, maintained and updated lesson plans, tests, visual aids and student handouts for seven different blocks of instruction.Supervised classes composed of USAF and USMC students, maintained student training records, and provided mentoring/coaching in career progression as an imagery analyst.Earned the Master Instructor rating, a rating held by only the top 10% of instructors.

Imagery Collection Manager

Start Date: 1997-06-01End Date: 1998-06-01

Represented 7th Air Force at US Forces Korea and Pacific Command for all Air Component Command collection concerns.As theater manager for all U-2 imagery collection requests, managed standing imagery collection decks and ad hoc collection requests.Nominated, edited and submitted national imagery targets through the Requirements Management System for collection by national assets.Created and maintained a comprehensive collection requirement strategy for the first ever Collection Management Board, US Forces Korea, integrating over a dozen ISR platforms and 2000 targets per day.

Independent Contractor

Start Date: 2013-04-01End Date: 2013-11-01

Served as a Geospatial Intelligence Subject Matter Expert for a technical proposal to capture a major US Air Force ISR contract. Wrote and edited sections of the technical proposal dealing with the GEOINT missions of the government customer.

Multispectral / Hyperspectral Imagery Analyst

Start Date: 2012-06-01End Date: 2013-10-01

• Utilized MSI and HSI imagery to analyze the likelihood of adversary activities and monitored counterinsurgency operations, in direct support of Special Operations Forces• Appointed by leadership to be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and implemented quality control (QCed) measures to ensure information was correct and standards were met• Trained new analysts to ensure current quality of products were maintained• Served as the project manager on multi-layered products • Revised the existing training program based on emerging requirements and technological advances

All Source Intelligence Analyst

Start Date: 2011-03-01End Date: 2011-09-01

• Correlated collection activities between WAMI, FMV, and other Multi-INT sensor operations• Analyzed and consolidated Human Intelligence (HUMINT), SIGINT, SIGACT, Open Source, and other in country IMINT platform reports to brief to other analysts • Conducted pre-mission activities including setting up watch boxes and retrieving maps and overlays of areas of interest• Produced fused intelligence products for the Blue Devil system in a deployed setting• Performed QCs of duties performed on each working shift to verify expectations are being met• Disseminated imagery and SIGINT products on a per site basis

Geospatial / Imagery Analyst

Start Date: 2008-07-01End Date: 2012-07-01

• Researched installations using NTM and MSI imagery to identify Order of Battle (OB) and key infrastructure • As part of a multi-intelligence fusion cell analyzed and exploited NTM imagery in direct response to warfighter intelligence requirements• Analyzed MSI and HSI imagery to create imagery products to answer customers RFIs• Created over 1500 graphics and analyzed more than 2500 images while supporting approximately 300 RFIs• As senior member of team QCed outgoing products to verify expectations were being met• Team lead for a 10 person analyst section delegating task, ensuring timely completion of tasks, and maintaining highest QC standards

FMV/WAMI Analyst

Start Date: 2011-03-01End Date: 2011-09-01

• Analyzed close to 800 hours of EO and IR FMV/WAMI feed for the Blue Devil system in theatre• Created FMV/WAMI IPB, Counter-IED (C-IED), HME Operations, and historical analysis products for customers/warfighter• Responsible for providing expert imagery analysis that ultimately led to the destruction of RC-SW number one High Priority Target (HPT)

PSDS2 Operator/FMV analyst

Start Date: 2013-10-01End Date: 2014-10-01

• Work in a multi-national, NATO environment analyzing and exploiting more than 4300 hours of full motion video • Provide post event imagery products to include event storyboards and video clips in response to routine and ADHOC requests• Provide video dissemination, add/delete sensors, network connectivity and other operational functions of the program's system • Currently serving as the system SME for training and preventative maintenance for all new personnel

Multispectral / Hyperspectral Imagery Analyst

Start Date: 2012-06-01End Date: 2013-10-01

• Utilized MSI and HSI imagery to analyze the likelihood of adversary activities and monitored counterinsurgency operations, in direct support of Special Operations Forces• Appointed by leadership to be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and implemented quality control (QCed) measures to ensure information was correct and standards were met• Trained new analysts to ensure current quality of products were maintained• Served as the project manager on multi-layered products • Revised the existing training program based on emerging requirements and technological advances

All Source Intelligence Analyst

Start Date: 2011-03-01End Date: 2011-09-01

• Correlated collection activities between WAMI, FMV, and other Multi-INT sensor operations• Analyzed and consolidated Human Intelligence (HUMINT), SIGINT, SIGACT, Open Source, and other in country IMINT platform reports to brief to other analysts • Conducted pre-mission activities including setting up watch boxes and retrieving maps and overlays of areas of interest• Produced fused intelligence products for the Blue Devil system in a deployed setting• Performed QCs of duties performed on each working shift to verify expectations are being met• Disseminated imagery and SIGINT products on a per site basis

FMV/WAMI Analyst

Start Date: 2011-03-01End Date: 2011-09-01

• Analyzed close to 800 hours of EO and IR FMV/WAMI feed for the Blue Devil system in theatre• Created FMV/WAMI IPB, Counter-IED (C-IED), HME Operations, and historical analysis products for customers/warfighter• Responsible for providing expert imagery analysis that ultimately led to the destruction of RC-SW number one High Priority Target (HPT)

Imagery Analysis Student

Start Date: 2009-07-01End Date: 2010-01-01

Identified various types of radar systems, cranes, military troop movement and vehicles as well as naval and air crafts using EO and SAR imagery. Recognized decoys from actual targets and reported findings. Successfully completed a wartime scenario and graduated the Imagery Analyst Apprentice Course.Assembled the Tactical Exploitation Group to assess imagery. Troubleshoot errors, run programs and manage licensing agreements for software. Successfully completed the Marine Corp Tactical Imagery Analyst Course.

Imagery Analyst

Start Date: 2012-01-01End Date: 2012-11-01

Educate and train service members prior to attending the Tactical Imagery Analysis Course at the National Geospatial Intelligence College. Monitor progress and recommend additional practice as necessary.Monitor training and education requirements and schedule as necessary for over 700 service personnel. Record and recommend yearly training in preparation for deployments. Audit training records for accuracy and completion prior to submitting to Battalion Commander.

Senior Geospatial Intelligence Instructor

Start Date: 2009-12-01End Date: 2013-09-03

Trained and developed geospatial analysts for the US Army Intelligence Community. Lectured, demonstrated, supervised, assisted, critiqued, and evaluated students in: •Security requirements. •Map reading and geospatial analysis techniques. •Database research methods. •Satisfying a RFI through production and QC of IDPs using Socet GXP, in addition to intelligence reports in various formats. •Building and deciphering military symbols for insertion on situation overlays with dataset application using ArcGIS. •Presentation of a professional intelligence briefing. •Capabilities, limitations, and characteristics of commercial, national, theater, and tactical level systems, platforms, and sensors; and their role in the TCPED process. •Theoretical principles and exploitation methods of TIR, SAR, and MSI. •TAC ID/VISRECCE of installations, industries, infrastructure, LOCs, and various OB with not only EO imagery; but TIR, SAR, and MSI as well. •Cultural awareness/human geography and imagery indicators. •Military TTPs. •Exploitation of FMI/FMV, production and dissemination of products. •Spectral imagery analysis including PI and MSI manipulation and exploitation. •FSG analysis conducting SAR AGI; comprising of 2CMV, CCD, DI, and TERCAT. •Exploitation of GMTI including forensic analysis using ISR Forensic Tool. •Targeting with PSS-SOF and Falcon View. •Techniques of BDA determining the physical and functional status of various target types. •Target package construction including LIDAR line of sight, 360˚ 3D modeling, and fly-through visualization of approach and departures; following the defining of HLZs and DZs in support of airborne operations. SME writing and updating blocks of instruction, used today to train soldiers. Attending software capabilities training and demonstrations directly influencing DCGS-Army/ DECGS program of record selection.

Intelligence Analyst NCO

Start Date: 2006-09-01End Date: 2013-02-06

• Deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as an ISR Collection Manager and Current Operations Day Shift NCOIC • Worked directly with RC-North to allocate ISR assets for the 37th IBCT and briefed the commander daily on ISR collections and current operations significant events • Created and maintained Counter-IED products detailing updates in insurgent IED tactics, techniques and procedures while working with Task Force Paladin • Worked with Task Force ODIN to support Brigade and Battalion Named Areas of Interest (NAIs) and Commander’s Critical Intelligence Requirements (CCIRs) • Created and managed Combined Force Air Component Commander (CFACC) requests for theater-level assets (Predator, Buckeye, Global Hawk, U2) and division-level assets (Heron, Hunter, Fire Scout, Liberty, Marss, Warrior Alpha) • Submitted daily and monthly feedback for ISR assets, submitted near border operations (NBO) requests, 8-lines, created coordination sheets, and developed Essential Elements of Intelligence (EEIs) • Analyzed FMV raw data and Electro Optical (EO) imagery to create products in support of the Brigade and subordinate units • Coordinated assets and requests with subordinate battalions across RC-North to maintain the highest level of coverage and support • Performed tasks in all facets of the intelligence operations cycle including tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TCPED) • Used information derived from all-source intelligence disciplines to determine changes in enemy capabilities, vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action • Attended RC-North ISR sync meetings with Coalition partners